WEBVTT >> EVERY TIME I HEAR HER NAME OR HEAR OF THE CIRCUMSTANCE, I JUST WANT TO CRY. REPORTER: A TRAGEDY THAT STRUCK ON THE EVE OF CHRISTMAS. >> IT’S JUST VERY HURTFUL THINKING ABOUT A MOM THAT WAS KILLED AND SHE HAS A LITTLE BOY WHO DOESN’T HAVE A MOM ANYMORE. REPORTER: HAS MANY FROM NEAR AND FAR, THOSE WITH OR WITHOUT A BADGE. >> EVERY AGENCY MOURNS. THE PUBLIC MOURNS. IT’S A BROTHERHOOD, AND IT’S A FAMILY. REPORTER: PAYING THEIR RESPECTS TO FALLEN OFFICER, DETECTIVE DEIDRE MENGEDOHT. >> I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A POLICE OFFICER MY WHOLE LIFE, SO I SUPPORT THE POLICE 100%. ANYTIME THERE’S A TRAGEDY LIKE THIS, I LOVE TO SHOW MY SUPPORT. REPORTER: FLAGS DISPLAYING THE THIN BLUE LINE AND SIGNS OF SUPPORT GREETED FAMILY AND LOVED ONES, MAKING THEIR WAY INTO HEBRON CEMETERY TO LAY THE SEVEN YEAR LMPD VETERAN TO REST. >> IT BREAKS MY HEART. THERE ARE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE IT. REPORTER: AS THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE MOURNS THE DEATH OF DETECTIVE MENGEDOHT, A PRIVATE BURIAL WAS HELD INSIDE OF THE CEMETERY FOR FAMILY AND CLOSE LOVED ONES. >> IT MAKES YOU STOP AND THINK ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, AND YOU APPRECIATE SO MUCH OF WHAT SHE DID. REPORTER: IT’S THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE THAT SOME CAN’T RELATE TO. >> WHAT THESE POLICE OFFICERS DO IS UNIMAGINABLE TO CIVILIAN LIFE. REPORTER: BUT YET, MANY PEOPLE FEEL THE PAIN IT BRINGS. >> IT HURTS. REPORTER: AS SHE’S LAID TO REST, DETECTIVE MENGEDOHT’S SACRIFICE WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED. >> IT’S A REFLECTION OF MANY THINGS, A REFLECTION OF WHO SHE IS, WHAT SHE DID FOR A LIVING, THE SACRIFICE THAT SHE MADE, AND THE SACRIFICE THAT MANY PEOPLE LIKE HER ARE WILLING TO MA

All Louisville and southern Indiana Bearno’s pizza restaurants will raise money for the family of a fallen Louisville Metro Police Department officer Tuesday.The restaurants will donate 20 percent of all Tuesday dine-in, carry-out and delivery orders to Detective Deidre Mengedoht’s family.Mengedoht was killed in the line of duty on Christmas Eve when a semitruck hit her cruiser during a traffic stop. The 32-year-old detective left behind a 9-year-old son.She spent more than seven years serving with LMPD.Jeffrey Eberenz helped organize the fundraiser. He's a co-owner of one of the Bearno's locations and is an LMPD officer.Bearno's partnered with the Louisville Metro Police Foundation for Tuesday's event.People picked up orders as soon as the doors opened.Rebecca Grignon Reker, with the Louisville Police Foundation, lost her husband in the line of duty and says the community support will never be forgotten by Mengedoht's family."Her little boy will look back on this when he's 20, 25 years old and think when the community came out in Louisville and supported him. You never forget that. It makes such a difference, not only for the money that enables him to live his life but the care that the community they show that his mother mattered," Reker said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

All Louisville and southern Indiana Bearno’s pizza restaurants will raise money for the family of a fallen Louisville Metro Police Department officer Tuesday.

The restaurants will donate 20 percent of all Tuesday dine-in, carry-out and delivery orders to Detective Deidre Mengedoht’s family.

Rebecca Grignon Reker, with the Louisville Police Foundation, lost her husband in the line of duty and says the community support will never be forgotten by Mengedoht's family.

"Her little boy will look back on this when he's 20, 25 years old and think when the community came out in Louisville and supported him. You never forget that. It makes such a difference, not only for the money that enables him to live his life but the care that the community they show that his mother mattered," Reker said.